feelings are cliché

My entire head is in pain.  This may not end up being one of my trademark introspection pieces. This very well may just be me complaining, buy really, who knows? I have the urge to write, so write I do. I think I may have experienced a migraine today. My left eye felt as if…

broader horizons

How does one know when it is time to give up? I am unsure if that is really how it works though. I think maybe the decision to let go and move on has more to do with either how fed up we get failing at something, or how bored we get when we’ve found…

the coin always has two sides

I am having a great day today. Very productive morning. I played out at the farmer’s market for around 3 hours this morning. In that time I made $67, had great interactions with people who stopped and hung out for a bit, and ran into a couple of friends and my brother. All in the…

favorite ways

“That’s not my favorite way though! That only meets 99% of my criteria!” – Louis C.K. on selfishness. Nothing will ever be Tailored to anyone’s exact needs. Everything has its flaws. Nothing here is infallible. Even your favorite president has done things that you didn’t like. Did you still like them then? Maybe not at…

brick wall/brick road

Setbacks suck. And it’s inevitable that one should occasionally stumble and stagger as they Bumble along their way. But they can really open your eyes. They make you reevaluate your process, and it’s a starting point for starting over, or starting on a new path. About two or so years ago, I had a falling…

“that still twitching bird…”

Bury Buried Things lost Things hidden Things that have finished A funeral, not only for a human Or animal. We can mourn the loss of many things – tangible or not. And we bury things all the time. Even if we don’t realise it. The infinitely carefree feeling that many of us had as children…

negative hindsight

We must be like sandpaper. But what Grit? Our actions affect everything. There are any number of possible outcomes for any action, and not one of those outcomes are set in stone. Things can change in an instant, and who knows how close you may have been to a different end when they do. It’s…

the clouds of unknowing

There are a lot of things that I would like to do in my life.  All through my life, there have been clouds looming overhead. Those clouds would speak to me in their thunderous voices. Every time they spoke, they boomed out the same question –  “SO, WHAT NOW?” The answer I would often have…

effective advocacy

Who’d have thought the boorish would inherit the earth? The meek never stood a chance because they may have expected too much for themselves. After all, it’s been told that they would receive this world since the bible times. And like a child who grows up reading nothing but fairytales, believing every word, they might…

time travel

Reading old journal entries or lyrics sometimes feels like time travel. Not only in the sense that I am remembering certain things about writing the piece. Catalysts I was experiencing at the time, social, internal, irrational, etc. are nostalgic for me, but that’s not really the point of looking back on them.  Nostalgia is a…